Attorney Kathryn Roberta Elwart's Legal Cases

Criminal defense

State v. RC

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OUTCOME: Dismissed

This was an armed robbery case. Due to his criminal history, my client was facing a potential sentence of life without parole. I filed a motion to suppress all evidence regarding the alleged robbery th ... at was seized from the client. I persuaded the judge that the arresting officer didn’t have sufficient evidence to stop, detain and search my client (at gunpoint, no less) at the time of his arrest. All evidence seized during the arrest was suppressed and State dismissed all charges.

Criminal defense

State v. JH

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OUTCOME: Acquitted

My client was charged with murder for beating the alleged victim to death by means of asphyxiation and blunt force trauma. I vigorously cross examined the State’s medical examiner. I also presented tes ... timony from an independent medical examiner that I hired, challenging the State’s finding of homicide, and asserting that the deceased died of natural causes. After considering charges in the indictment and lesser included offenses of involuntary manslaughter, the jury acquitted my client of all charges.

Criminal defense

State v. MH

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OUTCOME: Acquitted

My client was charged with shooting a young man to death on Halloween for egging a car. The case received considerable media attention. I presented a credible alibi defense for my client and also convi ... nced the judge to admit evidence of a long-standing dispute between my client’s family members and the “eyewitnesses” who testified at trial that he was the shooter. After hearing evidence during a week-long trial, the jury acquitted my client of all charges in less than two hours.

Criminal defense

State v. SB

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OUTCOME: Dismissed

My client was charged with stabbing her boyfriend. After presenting evidence of the accuser’s violent nature to prosecutor, witness statements of prior acts of violence from the accuser towards the cli ... ent, and found 911 call showing that my client called for assistance and told 911 operator that accuser was beating her immediately prior to stabbing, prosecutor dismissed all charges immediately prior to jury selection. Instead of serving over twenty years in prison for merely defending herself, my client left the courtroom with her family as a free woman.

Criminal defense

State v. BH

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OUTCOME: Dismissed

My client was wrongfully charged with a murder and was unable to make the bond that the judge set. I filed a speedy trial demand. At a motions hearing, I presented evidence to the court that the sole e ... yewitness to the murder merely “guessed” at the identity of the shooter when choosing my client from the photo lineup that the police presented. I also presented the prosecutor with cell phone records that my client was across town using his cell phone at the time of the murder. After motions and the presentation of credible alibi evidence, the prosecutor dismissed all charges the week before trial.

Criminal defense

State v. JN

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OUTCOME: Dismissed

My client was charged with burglary, which arose from a break-in at a home where the homeowner came in and startled the burglar. The homeowner eventually picked my client out of a photographic lineup. ... However, due to my extensive investigation, I learned that the police had previously showed photographic lineups to the homeowner that contained my client’s picture and the homeowner failed to point out my client. In response to this, the police THREW THOSE LINEUPS IN THE TRASH. I filed a motion to suppress the unlawful photographic identification of my client and a motion to dismiss the charges due to the State’s failure to preserve evidence favorable to my client. I also investigated and provided the State with a strong alibi, including cell phone records and documents from a rental car agency, showing that my client was renting a car across town at the exact time of the burglary. The prosecutor dismissed all charges at motions hearing.

Kathryn Roberta Elwart's Legal Cases (6)

State v. RC

State v. JH

State v. MH

State v. SB

State v. BH

State v. JN